Stick figure drawings send 11 yr old to prison

[Trip]

Originally Posted by shmike

That catch is, kid was previously diagnosed with ADHD.

Therapist tells him to draw out feelings rather than disrupt class.

Kids follows therapist recommendations, and is throwing drawing away when teacher intercepts it.

In public school, the whole therapist thing doesn't mean shit. It's all zero tolerance now.

Parent accidently drops a regular kitchen knife in schoolbag when fixing kids lunch and putting in his bag. Kid pulls out knife when he pulls out his lunch, teacher sees knife, boom kid is expelled.

There is no acceptable excuse or logical reasoning at public schools anymore. It's take action, get sued by parents, only forced to change policy by a court order.

Private schools ftmfw...

[pauldun170]

there is a better way...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaqYpGZT64

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Trip

Private schools ftmfw...

Truth.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

there is a better way...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikaqYpGZT64

No, the kid was told to draw HIS feelings... not YOURS.

[askmrjesus]

When I was in school, we had super-gay jock folders, made in the USA by the Pee-Chee Gay Folder Co. This was before the 3-Ring binder became popular.

If your folder was clean and shiny, you would get beat up. Only nerds had clean shiny folders. Everyone else drew violent scenes of mayhem and sexual in your end-o.

The second runner always had a stick of Dynamite in his hand, the football was a bomb, and the girl...well, let's just say she wasn't grinning because she was happy with her serve.

If I had a kid, I'd home school him, and socialize him at the dog park.

JC

[MILK]

Originally Posted by Dave

add requires a therapist now?

Drugs are not the only treatment for ADHD.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by MILK

Drugs are not the only treatment for ADHD.

Yelling, "Pay Attention!" only works short term.

JC

[LeeNetworX]

Originally Posted by the chi

I'm confused. The school says he wasnt deemed a threat and sent back to class but then after they decided to have him arrested?

There's what the faculty and staff do at the school and at the time, and then you have the school administration at the top making decisions when they hear about it and they may have differing opinions on how to handle the situation, typically after conferring with their legal counsel.

[101lifts2]

Every time I hear shit like this I just think that this country is totally beyond repair. We have fucked ourselves financially, legally, politically, religously, morally and constitutionally. I'm just waiting for the collapse.

Is it not illegal to arrest someone over free speech? It isn't like the kid passed the thing out as he was thowing it away and it was intercepted. So I can't write wtf I want on a piece of paper cause I "might" act it out? Good God.

[Homeslice]

ADHD is bullshit. If therapists and drug companies had their way, everyone would be diagnosed with it.